Podria Quotes

#1. The preservation of liberty, not the promotion of efficiency, is the primary justification for private property. Efficiency is a happy, though not accidental, by-product - and a most important by-product because liberty could not have survived if it had not also produced affluence.

Milton Friedman

#2. There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present, and must compel its age to understand it; the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told.

James Russell Lowell

#3. Everything changed for Simon Falke the first time he fell through the fire.

Sam Whitehouse

#4. To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

Mark Twain

#5. And when reality denies you the tools you need for survival you grab them from wherever you can.

Alexander Gordon Smith

#6. Our real debt ceiling isn't decided by Washington; it's decided by Beijing.

David Burge

#7. Have. Harry Truman, of all people, comes to mind, when he said, concerning his administration's programs, We'll just try them ... and if they don't work ... why then we'll just try something else.

Robert M. Pirsig

#8. Motion pictures are of course a different medium of expression than the public speech, the radio, the stage, the novel, or the magazine. But the First Amendment draws no distinction between the various methods of communicating ideas.

William O. Douglas

#9. 'Phantom of the Opera' started in my little 100-seater converted church in Britain with a stage where we did what we did. But it was the score itself was what made it.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

#10. Long term debt and bank debt (including off-balance sheet financing must be judiciously employed. There must be room to expand the debt position if required.

Peter Cundill

#11. Everyone says "I wish I was in your shoes ... ", the hundreds of people that wish they were in my shoes don't know the tenth of it. If they were in my shoes they would cry like a baby.

Mike Tyson

#12. If people want to take their lives and are helped to do so, the punishment is tragic for all concerned.

Deborah Moggach

#13. Let's have a conversation about how we destroy ISIS.

Rick Scott

#14. Prayer for today:
Dear Lord, the eternal ecstatic joy within me is often turned into bondage by my labeling mind. Please, give me some meditative wisdom.

Saurabh Sharma

#15. You are the composer and conductor and thus decide what key of life to live. I choose major over minor whenever I can.

Susan Reynolds